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The Origins of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad University of Louisville ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1939 The origins of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Lolla Wurtele 1913-2006 University of Louisville Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd Part of the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Wurtele, Lolla 1913-2006, "The origins of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad." (1939). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 1857. https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/1857 This Master's Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository. This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has retained all other copyrights. For more information, please contact [email protected]. UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE THE ORIGINS OF THE LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty Of the Graduate School of the University of Louisville In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Of Master of Arts Department of History By LOLLA WURTELE 1939 '''''"/,. .. THE ORIGINS OF THE LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER TITLE I THE FIRST STEPS TOWARD THE BUILDING OF THE L AND N RAILROAD • • • • • • • • • • • •• 1 II SURVEYS •• • • • • • • • • • • • • 27 III LOCATION ~~ ESTIMATES • • • • • • 39 IV CONSTRUCTION • • • • . • • • • • 56 V FINANCES • • • • • • • • • • • • • 71 BIBLIOGRAPHY • • • • • • • • • • • 89 -----~" -_ ...._--_._. __ .. "' THE FIRST STEPS TOWARD THE BUILDING OF THE L AND N RAILROAD CHAPTER I THE FIRST STEPS TOWARD THE BUILDING OF THE L AND N RAILROAD The world to-day is passing through a second age of mechanization. "The invention of the steam engine and the development of the rail­ road throughout the years that have intervened between these two periods have shaped the lives of millions and influenced the social, political and economic forces which govern living conditions and national problems. The first machine age brought forth all of our present-day evils of the capitalistic system. Unemployment, migration from farm to city, unchecked production and other pro­ blems have been the bitter and constant complaint of the multitudes since the days of Thomas Carlyle."l The first railroad traffic in both the South and the West came directly from agriculture. The cotton, tobacco, corn and other agricultural pro­ ducts of the South and the grain from the West found a market-beyond the limits of their own terri­ tories. This was not an unusual situation but was _1. Kerr, John Leeds, !.b!!..Story of ,-A.. Southern Carrier, p.l p 2. merely a retlection ot world-wide experience in the development ot a nation.l The ·railroad thus made tor greater national economic unity. The railroads have developed America. It is true that there were millions ot people in our country betore a railroad was even dreamed ot, but it is also true that since the tirst railroad started in 1830, the population has increased over nine-told. The population ot our country has increased trom 12,000,000 in 1830 to 105,000,000 in 1920. There Can be no doubt that the great natural resources ot this country would have been developed to some extent without railroads, and millions ot people would have sought a comtortable home in the new land ot opportunity, but certainly the United states would not be the country it is to-day were it not tor the railroads. The railroads made new trading centers. The railroads ventured into sparsely settled lands, and within a tew years thereatter cities grew up, wealth accumulated, and millions ot acres ot unworked lands were producing foodstuffs and other necessities tor the nation.2 1. Kerr,.2R..!. ill., p. 3. 2. A Book About. th~ ~ and N, p. 6. 3. Although a number of short railroads had been constructed in the 1830' s (e.g. the Lexing­ ton and Louisville), the discovery of gold in California gave impetus to a vigorous movement of railway construction throughout the nation. The sudden addition of more than fifty million dollars in new wealth annually in circulation had a remarkably favorable effect upon the industries and commerce of the country.l The first decade of American railway trans­ portation (1830-1840) had several important characteristics. Physical difficulties were not the only or chief obstacles in the path of the early railway promoters in America. Until after the Civil War the steamboats and canals occupied the center of the transportation stage. Water carriage had the advantage of easy demonstration, and the application of steam to river craft took precedence over land carriage until the smooth- surfaced track came to the aid of the primitive locomotive. Even then, the railroads were mostly used to connect waterways. Rates were generally 1. A Book About ~ L and N, p. 7 based on the canal rates which had previously existed. 1 The equipment was of the most experi- mental sort. Experiments were made with the rails, ties, and foundations that were replaced with wooden sleepers, stone ballast, and T-rails that we have to-day. The mileage increase was also noteworthy. There were twenty-three miles in 1830, but the mileage had expanded to 2,218 in 1840 •. The average cost during this decade was about $44,500 per mile.2 Several American railroads readily adopted the English standard gauge, four teet, eight inches, but most ot them used the gauge which seemed to meet their conditions best. Many of the Southern roads chose five feet as a standard gauge. Several of the later roads of this decade had iron rails~ but the majority still used the wooden rail wit~ a strip of iron attached. All 1. Thompson, Slason, Short Hi stor ..2.L. Amerioan !!!!!.­ roads,. pp. 47-48. The standara rate tor moving freight on canals was 3¢ per ton mile in 1832. This is high when compared to railway rates of later days, but it was taken as the basis of limitation in some of the earlier railway charters. The Pennsylvania Railroad, for example, was not to charge over 2¢ per ton per mile for freight; 3¢ per mile on through passengers; and 31¢ for way passengers. 2. Ibid~J pp. 73-74. p roads were short, and suoh a thing as making oonneotions with other roads was almost unheard of.l The difficulties of railroads in their first deoade are very well summed up in the following statement: Poverty and prejudice presided at birth of rail-transportation in Amerioa, and panics rende.red their early develop­ ment fitful and precarious. Only the indomitable optimism of our raoe pushed the rails westward in advance of oi vili zati on. 2 The following ten years proved to be muoh more auspioious ones. On January 1, 1849, the first oontinuous line of railway from New York to Boston was formed with the opening of the New York and New Haven Railroad. The following spring, the Erie was oompleted to Lake Erie. The Miohigan Central and Miohigan Southern Railroads were oom- pleted, giving, with Lake Erie as an intermediate ,. link, a oonneotion between New York and Chioago in 3 -. 1852. It was during these years, too, that Amerioa saw the awakening of the Ohio and Mississippi 1. Thompson, ~~, p. 76 2. ~., p. 81 3. Thompson, Blason, !!l!. Railway Li brary, 1910, p. 13. 6. valleys to the importanoe of railway oonneotions. In 1840, Kentuoky had only 28 miles of railroad;l Tennessee, none; Indiana, none; Ohio, 30 miles; Illinois, none; Louisiana, 40 miles and Missouri, none. 2 In the South and Southwest many small rail­ roads were operating at this time. The panic of 1837 had ended most of the weaker oompanies and left only those short lines whioh were able to weather successfully the finanoial vicissitudes of the decades. One of our ablest writers of the history of the Mississippi Valley, R. S. Cotterill says: The importanoe of the decade 1830-1840 lies not so muoh in what it did as 1n what it intended to do. It outlined the railway program for the next two decades and there was hardly a railroad built in the southwest before the Civil War that was not projeoted during this earlier period.3 .. In the spring of 1845 a notable convention in the interest of railroads was held in Memphis, 1. Lexington and Frankfort Railroad running from LeXington to Frankfort ~e Leala.!ll •• -- 2. Thompson, Short History, pp. ".-5. 3. Cotterill, R. S., Mississippi "Valley Historioal Review, vol. VIII, pp. 324-325. 7. Tennessee. John C. Calhoun, Robert Y. Hayne, and James Gadsden, all famous railroad exponents, were among those present. A general outburst ot southern enthusiasm to110wed the adoption ot the resolutions favoring the Pacific Railroad.1 In 1845, also, the.State of Tennessee chartered the Nashville and Chattanooga which, when completed, would form in connection with the Charleston and Chattanooga Railroad, a through railway line from Nashville, Tennessee, on the Cumberland River, to Charleston, South Carolina, thus threatening Louisville's trade. The next plan was to connect Louisville on the Ohio with Charleston. Had this plan worked, it would have been highly remunerative from a traffic standpoint. At some later date a connecting 1in~ to Memphis could be attempted. 2 By 1850 the railway mileage ot the country had more than trebled the figure at the end ot the previous decade, and was distributed among twenty-five states while ten years before only nineteen states had any railway mileage at all. Ot 1. Cotterill,.2l2..!. cit., vol. III, pp. 432':""4.34. 2. Kerr,.2l2..!.~, p.
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